33. How To Turn The "Hard Things" You Avoid Into Base Instincts You Can't Live Without
May 25, 2018
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Learn how to turn hard things you avoid into base instincts that lead to success. Overcome the 'natural giftedness' delusion and understand that everything must be learned through practice. Discover the stages of brute forcing, turning into a habit, and finally, becoming a base instinct. Transition from planning to taking action by building consistent revenue generating habits. Create habits using triggers, actions, and rewards. Use the trigger-action-reward concept to achieve goals. Develop base instincts through practice and breaking out of comfort zones.
Practice and consistency are key factors in achieving success.
Turning actions into habits and eventually into base instincts allows for increased mastery and success.
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Turning Hard Things into Base Instincts
Many people avoid starting their own business or pursuing their dreams because they feel uncertain, lack confidence, or fear failure. This is a common delusion among humans when faced with unknown and challenging situations. However, the key to achieving success is to turn these hard things into base instincts. Base instincts are hard-coded behaviors in our DNA that are automatic and don't require conscious thought. To do this, practice is crucial. By repeatedly doing something and turning it into a habit, it eventually becomes an instinct. This applies to various aspects of life, such as survival instincts and the instinct to procreate. By consistently practicing a specific action, such as revenue-generating activities in business, and turning it into a habit, it will eventually become an instinct, leading to greater success.
The Power of Practice and Consistency
Practice and consistency are key factors in achieving success. Many successful individuals, including athletes like Michael Jordan and businesspeople, emphasize the importance of practicing more than anyone else. The more you practice a specific action, whether it's sales calls or revenue-generating activities, the better you become at it. Continuous practice not only turns something into a habit but eventually into a base instinct. Repetition and consistency are crucial in forming habits and ingraining them in our subconscious minds. Consistently doing something every day first thing in the morning, such as revenue-generating activities, helps solidify it as a habit. Tracking progress and seeing your track record can provide motivation and make it more painful to break the habit.
The Importance of Strategy Sessions
In business, strategy sessions or sales calls play a crucial role in achieving success. The number of strategy sessions conducted is a significant determinant of success. Those who have done no strategy sessions are unlikely to see success, while those who have done at least 30 have a higher chance of closing clients. To reach six-figure incomes, consistently conducting one to three strategy sessions per day, Monday to Friday, is necessary. For seven-figure incomes, doing at least 1,000 strategy sessions is a common factor among successful individuals. Scaling to multi-seven or eight-figure incomes often requires hiring a team and having multiple sales representatives conducting strategy sessions regularly. Practice, repetition, and consistency are key to mastering strategy sessions and turning them into a base instinct.
Turning Actions into Habits and Base Instincts
To achieve success, it is essential to identify the actions necessary to reach your goals and turn them into habits and eventually base instincts. Start by determining what needs to be done and reverse engineering the steps required. Create a trigger, action, reward sequence to help solidify the habit in your subconscious mind. Consistently perform the action every day, ideally first thing in the morning. Track your progress and have a visual representation of your habits to provide motivation. Stick to the habit for at least 30 days to begin forming it. The more you practice and repeat the action, the more it becomes ingrained in your subconscious, leading to base instincts. Practicing, turning actions into habits, and eventually into base instincts allows for increased mastery and success.
Most people suffer from the "natural giftedness" delusion. They think that successful people are born naturals who master things immediately -- and -- If they try something new and they're not good at it and confident on the first few tries, it's just not meant to be. This sort of thinking is fucked up. Everybody is born into this world the same way. Everything must be learned through practice. Sheer repetition, consistency and time. You will NEVER be successful in life or business until you turn the hard things you avoid doing into base instincts. Things you execute on all day, every day, without even thinking. To do this you have to go through a few stages: The first one is to brute force your way through, then turn it into a habit, then turn it into a base instinct. The magic happens when hard things become base instincts.
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